[tlow98]

Originally Posted by nsjames

SSD installed and working in my CIC swap.

and this

Show us a before/after of all your hard work. looks shiny here tho, nice work

[Welcome to NBA Jam]

Originally Posted by nsjames

SSD installed and working in my CIC swap.

and this

What SSD did you go with? I had bad luck with a PATA one and gave up.

[nsjames]

Originally Posted by tlow98

Show us a before/after of all your hard work. looks shiny here tho, nice work

I haven't paint corrected the hood yet.

it's been 90 here with about 80% relative humidty

Originally Posted by Welcome to NBA Jam

What SSD did you go with? I had bad luck with a PATA one and gave up.

Used a PATA to M.SATA adapter and put a 240gb kingston card in it.

[nsjames]

Originally Posted by E92William

You painted the little mustaches body color? If I had a pre lci e90 that'd be the first thing I'd do it makes the car look more aggressive too

the mustaches and the outer grill shell.

[sk1939]

Originally Posted by nsjames

Used a PATA to M.SATA adapter and put a 240gb kingston card in it.

How difficult was it to access and flash the drive?

[imperix1]

Just bought it last week so i figured i would change the charge tube and put a BOV on. sure easy enough i get to it have everything apart in no time. BAM stupid vacuum tube snaps off the intake yay me lol. ya it was a great day lol.

[nsjames]

Originally Posted by sk1939

How difficult was it to access and flash the drive?

it's not, but I'm a career nerd.

excellent thread here:
https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1426773

I have not expanded the partition table yet.

I've been busy moving a piano.

[335IE90]

Originally Posted by nsjames

it's not, but I'm a career nerd.

excellent thread here:
https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1426773

I have not expanded the partition table yet.

I've been busy moving a piano.

Does the UI become faster from this or is it just more so for music saved loading faster?

[ryan stewart]

Put in a new non squeaky blower motor. Yay!

[335xirookie]

so fresh so clean...

[E92William]

After busting my ass all day replacing the front guibo at the trans output shaft and the center support bearing the car still vibrates over 70
Maybe the guibo at the differential is bad? Idek it looked soft but good

[najericam]

After some time hesitating, I finally installed LED interior bulbs. Had to play a bit with the one at the back, as it's E93, but found solution to stick one W5W instead of two W2,3W.

[SSW]

Installed a new pair of OEM hood struts in my 2008 E90 that I bought for about $36 (after installing a new pair of OEM trunk struts in the same car a few days ago.

Well worth the $ and both the hood and trunk open effortlessly now.

[E92William]

Changed out upper radiator hose and funny enough the nipple on top broke off removing it so I was barely ahead of the curve.

Also just realized my coolant cap has a crack by the plastic that holds the o ring

[stewbets]

Originally Posted by E92William

After busting my ass all day replacing the front guibo at the trans output shaft and the center support bearing the car still vibrates over 70
Maybe the guibo at the differential is bad? Idek it looked soft but good

Bummer. When my giubo went bad, it only vibrated on moderate to hard acceleration. I took a video of my driveshaft before and after replacing the giubo to show the difference in movement. It was pretty obvious.

Before:

After:

[Serf27]

Originally Posted by stewbets

Bummer. When my giubo went bad, it only vibrated on moderate to hard acceleration. I took a video of my driveshaft before and after replacing the giubo to show the difference in movement. It was pretty obvious.

Before:

After:

Great idea! I have some vibration on my e91 and was wondering if was the carrier bearing. I’m going to have to try this.

[bmdubya1198]

Originally Posted by stewbets

Bummer. When my giubo went bad, it only vibrated on moderate to hard acceleration. I took a video of my driveshaft before and after replacing the giubo to show the difference in movement. It was pretty obvious.

Before:

After:

Wow, that driveshaft was flopping all over the place!

[E92William]

Where did you mount your phone or what did you use to record? This is the next thing I'm doing I guess lol plus I wouldn't mind hearing what my car sounds like with open exhaust manifolds

I'm just kind of weirded out because I installed it right and the drivetrain feels a lot more direct now but it seems maybe the rear guibo Is bad. Your car seems to have only one idk why my xi has two.

Old guibo and csb

[nsjames]

Originally Posted by 335IE90

Does the UI become faster from this or is it just more so for music saved loading faster?

boot hapens from flash memory into ram, so unaffected.

all the navigation things are faster after it boots.
searching POIS? pretty instant for the lists to appear.
cross country route calculation? less than 5 seconds.

mostly I did this for reliability. My cic unit came from a 2010, I don't trust ten year old drives, because professional nerd.

at the very least pull your drive and make an image of it for when it fails.

[stewbets]

Originally Posted by E92William

Where did you mount your phone or what did you use to record? This is the next thing I'm doing I guess lol plus I wouldn't mind hearing what my car sounds like with open exhaust manifolds

I'm just kind of weirded out because I installed it right and the drivetrain feels a lot more direct now but it seems maybe the rear guibo Is bad. Your car seems to have only one idk why my xi has two.

Old guibo and csb

Yeah, I don't have a rear giubo and I'm not sure why some have it and some don't. I used a generic Go Pro camera that I zip tied to the transfer case mounting bracket. I couldn't believe how harsh it is to drive a car without the exhaust. Both trips set off a warning with the AWD system which I can only assume was related to the massive vibrations associated with not running the exhaust system.

[david in germany]

I have had my Cobb catted down pipes sitting in my garage for the last 2 1/2 years so last week I was vacationing down in Bavaria (we used my wife’s 328i) I dropped off the car at my mechanic and had him install my down pipes while we were gone. So today I picked up the car and installed my Cobb stage 2 FMIC aggressive tune (up from stage 1 FMIC aggressive). Boost seems to come on faster and smoother than the stage 1 tune.

I like it!

[335IE90]

Originally Posted by nsjames

boot hapens from flash memory into ram, so unaffected.

all the navigation things are faster after it boots.
searching POIS? pretty instant for the lists to appear.
cross country route calculation? less than 5 seconds.

mostly I did this for reliability. My cic unit came from a 2010, I don't trust ten year old drives, because professional nerd.

at the very least pull your drive and make an image of it for when it fails.

I'm tech savvy until it comes to stuff like that. My brother got those smarts. I got the mechanical smarts. Maybe I'll ask him to do it for me